The last pub to use the older, now American spelling of checker was in Baldock, Hertfordshire, but this closed circa 1990 ; all pubs now use the modern " q " spelling ( but see also Chequers, in Plants and horticulture below ).

In horticulture, lime sulfur ( British spelling lime sulphur ) is a mixture of calcium polysulfides formed by reacting calcium hydroxide with sulfur, used in pest control.

Apart from learning these, the student of Āyurveda was expected to know ten arts that were indispensable in the preparation and application of his medicines: distillation, operative skills, cooking, horticulture, metallurgy, sugar manufacture, pharmacy, analysis and separation of minerals, compounding of metals, and preparation of alkalis.

In areas where it was possible to grow taro and kūmara, horticulture became more important.

She was given free rein to renovate the Petit Trianon, a small château on the grounds of Versailles, which was given to her as a gift by Louis XVI on 15 August 1774 ; she concentrated mainly on horticulture, redesigning the garden in the English fashion, which in the previous reign had been an arboretum of introduced species, and adding flowers.

All the arts of architecture and horticulture were lavished on Burghley House and Theobalds ( which his son, Robert, was to exchange with James I for Hatfield House ).

The Woodland period from 1000 BCE to 1000 CE was marked by the development of pottery and the small-scale horticulture of the Eastern Agricultural Complex.

* The Genesee Farmer was an agriculture and horticulture periodical established in 1831

Then, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the trend was towards a combination of specialist and eclectic collections demonstrating many aspects of both horticulture and botany.

Farrand was an avid observer of the island's nature in her youth, and her experiments with challenging sites on the Reef Point gardens her interest in design and horticulture and planning.

At age twenty Farrand was introduced to one of her primary mentors, the botanist Charles Sprague Sargent, who at Harvard University was both a professor of horticulture at the Bussey Institute and the founding director of the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts.

The ILI was formed in 1993 to merge the disciplines of landscape architecture and landscape horticulture.

The main source of income was livestock farming with some arable, but the horticulture and floriculture were already emerging.

Which plants are chosen to be named as cultivars is simply a matter of convenience as the category was created to serve the practical needs of horticulture, agriculture, and forestry.

* Arthur Warocqué ( 1835 – 1880 ), Industrialist and promotor of Belgian horticulture after whom the arum Anthurium warocqueanum was named.

In addition, Caillebotte used his wealth to fund a variety of hobbies for which he was quite passionate, including stamp collecting ( his name was inscribed in the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists, and his collection is now in the British Library ), orchid horticulture, yacht building, and even textile design ( the women in his paintings Madame Boissière Knitting, 1877, and Portrait of Madame Caillebotte, 1877, may be working on patterns created by Caillebotte ).

Evelyn was a prolific author and produced books on subjects as diverse as theology, numismatics, politics, horticulture, architecture and vegetarianism, and he cultivated links with contemporaries across the spectrum of Stuart political and cultural life.

It was created by the Mississippi Legislature on February 28, 1878, to fulfill the mission of offering training in " agriculture, horticulture and the mechanical arts.

Since 1831 he was secretary of the founded societé d ' horticulture de Mons.

Devonshire himself developed a keen interest in horticulture and was elected President of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1838.

Eustace-Cole Hall was the United States ' first freestanding horticulture laboratory.

Bailey was the first to raise the study of horticulture to a science, paralleling botany, which earned him the title of " Father of American Horticulture ".

However, being disinclined to farm life, he was placed as an apprentice to Roger Toland, the gardener at Favour Royal, to study horticulture.

It is used in gardens, landscaping, horticulture, and agriculture.

The term gardener is also used to describe garden designers and landscape gardeners, who are involved chiefly in the design of gardens, rather than the practical aspects of horticulture.

A tray used in horticulture ( for sowing and taking plant cuttings )

In horticulture, perlite can be used as a soil amendment or alone as a medium for hydroponics or for starting cuttings.

* Danish trolley, a type of wheeled shelfing unit used to transport goods in horticulture

In addition to being used in horticulture, revegetation, and highway beautification, it often colonizes along roadsides and other disturbed areas.

Cedars are very popular ornamental trees, widely used in horticulture in temperate climates where winter temperatures do not fall below about − 25 ° C.

In recent decades, many elms of European or North American origin have died from the Dutch elm disease, a beetle-dispersed fungus ; in response, horticulturists have developed various kinds of disease-resistant elm trees, allowing the genus to be increasingly used again in horticulture and landscaping.

Because seashells are in some areas a readily available bulk source of calcium carbonate, shells such as oyster shells are sometimes used as soil conditioners in horticulture.

In horticulture the term " pansy " is normally used for those multi-coloured, large-flowered cultivars which are raised annually or biennially from seed and used extensively in bedding.

Many species, such as J. chinensis ( Chinese Juniper ) from eastern Asia, are extensively used in landscaping and horticulture, and as one of the most popular species for use in bonsai.

The city has an area of, of which roughly 50 % is used for agriculture, horticulture, or forestry.

* Oasis ( horticulture ), foam used in flower arranging

* Energy production and water desalination could be used to support carbon-fixing or food-producing local agriculture, and for intensive aquaculture and horticulture under the solar collector as a greenhouse.

Yews are widely used in landscaping and ornamental horticulture.

In agriculture and horticulture pollination management, a good pollenizer is a plant that provides compatible, viable and plentiful pollen and blooms at the same time as the plant that is to be pollinated or has pollen that can be stored and used when needed to pollinate the desired flowers.

It is currently the Sonoran Desert's second most economically valuable native plant ( overshadowed only by the Washingtonia palms used in horticulture ).

A seed tray used in horticulture for sowing and taking plant cuttings and growing Plug ( horticulture ) | plugs

In the horticulture industry synthetics are often used in soils to help the plants grow better.

In addition to botany, horticulture, the Library ’ s collections are used for studies in fields as diverse as history, anthropology, landscape and building design, architectural history, ethnobotany, economic botany, urban social history, and environmental policy.

Many are grown as ornamental plants by the horticulture trade and used in conventional landscapes and native plant habitat gardens.